One whinge thread, no gherkins, comin' up.

Writing is ridiculously tough. I don't know if it's just me. I tend not to have too much trouble in the lyrics department (I wont say they're good, but they're THERE at least) but trying to put music to that shit is just really hard. And then there are times when I come up with a okay chord sequence and get a great melody going to it. Melody is the only thing that comes fairly naturally to me, if I have some music to guide it, but then I just can't find the words to put to it. And as I say, I can come up with words but trying to give those words a melody is just rough. It's like I've got all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle but they refuse to fit together. Is anyone else like this? Share your pain, pls.

I know we have a bunch of great songwriters here on KR. Do you guys find the whole thing comes naturally to you, or do you have to really push yourself to find that lyric or that melody or whatever? Do you think you have strong points and weak points in the whole process. I mean, I know overthinking this shit just robs the whole songwriting thing of its natural beauty or whateverthefuck, but maybe I'm not the only one like this?

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Deux hommes font une promenade amicale. L'un des deux porte un parapluie à son bras.
Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.

I'm not sure if I'm one of the great KR songwriters or anything. haha! But I usually write the music before I write the lyrics. It's easier to write lyrics to music than the other way round because the mood of the song has been set by the music then.

please post some lyrics. please

theyre written throguh you

i have to push with lyrics, mostly. i can sit and write out a melody and chords easily - that feels like it comes naturally - but i'm so picky about lyrics that it takes forever. sometimes they'll flow in bits and pieces, but rarely have i ever had a whole lyric come at once.

i've really learned not to rush or force lyrics because i've seen them get embarrassingly bad.

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its called talent...... RyaNn

but i always write lyrics first then music i play around with riffs alot. i usually think up lyrics on the toilet.

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Karmi .....

YES THE TOLIET IS A LYRICAL INSPIRATION HAWTSPAWT
HAHA
SERIOUSLY
!!!!!

ithought the butterfly thing wasto me
it scared me for a second

scary bastard

i know right

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Karmi .....

well for me the music writing process can be hard. i find it easy to write a melody or a chord progression first thats decent and i try to perfect it first and later tweak some parts. writing the lyrics for me depends on the melody or the progression. my melodies or rhythms come naturally to me at times but just go with the flow, whatever you feel is good, i mean have fun tis all.

This is beyond shitty.

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i think it was a joke?

but a beyond shitty joke

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Karmi .....

i just fuck around until something sounds good. but my tunes generally dont have any melodies.. or lyrics

Usually the lyrics come easily to me, and the music is the hard part.
But a few weeks ago, I wrote and recorded this really amazing guitar part onto my 8-track, and now I can't think of lyrics.

I'm really fucking frustrated about it too.

both seem easy to me and come quick when i have inspiration
and then i can spend weeks without having it again
then i find other things to do